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Excerpts from Adam Young's message of 2015-06-22 11:26:54 -0700:
> On 06/20/2015 10:28 AM, Flavio Percoco wrote:
> >>
> >
> > As promissed: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/193804/
> >
> > Cheers, 
> You can't deprecate a driver without providing a viable alternative.
> 
> Right now, QPID is the only driver that supports  Kerberos.
> 
> TO support Kerberos, tyou need support for the GSSAPI library, which is 
> usually done via support for SASL.  Why is it so convoluted...historical...
> 
> We've talked with both teams (I work with Ken) and I think Proton is 
> likely going to be the first to have support.  The folks working on 
> Rabbit have the double hurdle of getting SASL support into Erlang first, 
> and then support for SASL into Rabbit. They've indicated a preference 
> for getting it in to the AMQP 1.0 driver, and not bothering with the 
> exisiting, but, check me on this, the Oso.Messaging  code only support 
> the pre 1.0 Rabbit.
> 
> 
> So..until we have a viable alternative, please leave QPID alone. I've 
> not been bothering people about it, as there seems to be work to get 
> ahead, but until either Rabbit or  Proton support Kerberos, I need QPID 
> as is.
> 

Adam that is all great information, thank you. However, the policy is
clear: commit resources for integration testing, or it needs to move
out of tree.

It's not a mountain of resources. Just an integration test that passes
reliably, and a couple of QPID+OpenStack experts who we can contact when
it breaks. If nobody is willing to put that much effort in, then it is
not really something we want in our official messaging library tree.

So please if you can carry that message up to those who want it to stay in
tree, that would be helpful and would put the stops on this deprecation.